Regex for numbers only

Question

I haven\'t used regular expressions at all, so I\'m having difficulty troubleshooting. I want the regex to match only when the contained string is all numbers; but with the

Answer 1

While non of the above solutions was fitting my purpose, this worked for me.

var pattern = @"^(-?[1-9]+\d*([.]\d+)?)$|^(-?0[.]\d*[1-9]+)$|^0$|^0.0$";
return Regex.Match(value, pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Success;

Example of valid values: "3", "-3", "0", "0.0", "1.0", "0.7", "690.7", "0.0001", "-555", "945465464654"

Example of not valid values: "a", "", " ", ".", "-", "001", "00.2", "000.5", ".3", "3.", " -1", "--1", "-.1", "-0", "00099", "099"